NSW Champs and AYOF

Well........The races on the weekend were awesome,a great result for me and several other juniors.I approached these two races differently to other selection events .In past races that were qualification for a team I always had the thought "I must go fast and beat others so I can make the team."However for this race I chose not to think about the youth olympics team but rather on how I was going to paddle, lines tempo edging etc etc.I believe that this different approach was what kept me calm on the startline,usually I am really nervous until i cross the startline but on the weekend I was rather calm.

Okay so the races on saturday were proabably the best in my paddling career to date.After first runs I was in second place behind benny.I was very cautious with my first run making sure I stuck the lines and was not on the back of the boat.Wayne said to me that that style of paddling does not suit me and that I need to race how I train.Second runs I let loose and paddled at 93.67 which was like 3rd fastest raw of day to win the junior mens .I was very happy and as this new method of approaching a race worked for me I turned to preparing for sundays races.

On sunday I had poorer races runs ,i was not clean and i did not stick my lines.This slipped me to fourth place after 1st runs.Not happy jan!!I semi redeemed myself in second runs and achieving a 3rd spot.Once racing was all over I then chose to turn attention to rankings.As i had a first and a third i was sitting on 3 points while phil and phil were equal on 2 points.

Copy pasted from Katies blog-final youth olympic team
Womens Kayak - Emmie Barrat, Kate Mollison and Roslyn Lawrence
Mens Kayak - Josh Williams, Phillip Gibbons and Phillip Mingerulli
Mens Canoe - Ian Borrows and Ethan Hodson
Mens C2 - Karl Hageman and Chris Horlyck